I wonder if standing ovation in churches are now required.|
Yes you read that correctly. For those that are not aware this weekend’s London Pen Show will be over two …Continue reading →| dapprman
Earlier this month, I decided to write and publish daily. Although I didn’t publish every day, I wrote almost every day. When I first set out to write with the intention of publishing — beyond poetry and fiction — it felt like an immense task. … More Everyday Stories| Void Thoughts
Yesterday was the first day in a week that I woke up without a headache weighing me down. Last week was rough, with stubborn headaches taking over my days and leaving me feeling inadequate. I could…| Void Thoughts
Earlier this week, I spent a lovely (if muggy) morning walking around Boston with a friend, wearing a summer dress I bought on clearance in mid-August. (I thought I might not have many chances to wear it before the weather turned cool – but, I am happy to report, it’s gotten a workout over the […]| cakes, tea and dreams
I arrived home mid-afternoon on Sunday, after a busy morning out and about in Cambridge. I had a long mental list of chores to do: wash dishes, vacuum, sweep the wood floors, clean the bathroom. (I still need to wash my windows, pay the electric bill, take out the recycling and compost and trash.) One […]| cakes, tea and dreams
I turn 42 this week. The number makes me think of a few things offhand: Jackie Robinson’s jersey number; a dominoes game I don’t know much about (my family are Chicken Foot people); and that line f…| cakes, tea and dreams
When I was a child, I used to run my hands on rocky walls and running water fountains. In class, I would smell wooden pencils and toy with the heft of a pen. I stabbed my arms with mechanical pencil leads. The good ones would stand on your skin and it was good for "special effects" if you ever had to pretend you were pierced by an arrow. I drove my teachers crazy by stacking the contents of my pencil case if left idle, even in the middle of an exam.| Mirrored W❄️rld
Yesterday was such a long day that I couldn’t publish anything. I sat down to write at night and almost finished a piece of fiction. I was happy to have penned something in my book, but... … More One Day at a Time| Void Thoughts
Once upon a time, I used to write about anything and everything that popped into my mind. I wrote about what happened around me, things that piqued my interest, thoughts that made me reflect, the m…| Void Thoughts
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My co-author Eunice and I write porn. We call it ‘porn’ without flinching; where some people like to claim there’s a categorical distinction between porn and erotica, we both are of the opinion that po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to, it’s all a tempest … Continue reading →| Franklin Veaux's Journal
There is a fetish I quite like. It’s not terribly common, but it’s also not uncommon as these things go, and it's called somnophilia . It’s the fetish for either having sex with a sleeping partner, or having someone have sex with you in your sleep. Now, if you don’t get the appeal, that’s totally…| tacit.livejournal.com
My co-author Eunice and I write porn. We call it ‘porn’ without flinching; where some people like to claim there's a categorical distinction between porn and erotica, we both are of the opinion that po-TAY-to, po-TAH-to, it’s all a tempest in a linguistic teapot. I bring this up because, having…| tacit.livejournal.com
‘De mortuis nil nisi bonum’/ Non requirit ut bona dicas. ‘Say nothing but good of the dead’/ Does not require good things to be said. Or ‘Speak only good of the dead’? You c…| Sphinx
If you're a new empty nester like me, you're likely having some of the same experiences I am. If you're looking ahead to this season, here are some things I've learned in the first three| The Palette Muse
It looks like I have tech mistrust or fatigue. Or both! On top of that, I am pretty sure I have work fatigue, which doesn’t help. You may have tech mistrust or fatigue too if you find dubious websi…| coralie's contemplations in markup
This past October, I was invited to speak at Food On The Edge in Galway, Ireland. Food On The Edge is a 2-day symposium bringing together people from different parts of the food industry to discuss stories, ideas, and the future of food. Some shared their innovations around food sustainability, others talked about mental health, and some challenged all of us with calls to action.| Abeer Najjar
Over on my music site I wrote a bit about the current state of streaming providers, specifically to encourage people to go back to buying their music and listening on local devices.| busybee
I'm also not a writer. Or a game developer. Or a game designer. Or a programmer. Or a...()| Mirrored W❄️rld
It has been an incredibly difficult week in more ways than one. The news of a respected professor's passing should not come as a surprise given how old she was, but she had been larger than life for the entirety of the country's tech education history. A venerable icon, a living history, a person I could only hesitantly call a mentor because I was never directly mentored (to be recognized would be my greatest honor). The Informatics program never existed without her — until now. More than f...| Mirrored W❄️rld
I've just finished my monthly shopping and refilled my pantry, fridge, and freezer. It's a comforting act, knowing that I'm in a place of abundance and I w...| Mirrored W❄️rld
I originally wrote this essay a few years ago and never published it. At the time I felt like maybe I was being a bit melodramatic. My kids are older now (the one in the pic is twelve and in …| Roaming Rosie
On the one hand, what’s happening in the University of Chicago – the (supposedly temporary) suspension of recruitment to PhD programmes in Classics as well as other disciplines that require s…| Sphinx
6/9/34-11/26/24 Seven years without you, Dad. I’ve missed you every one of those days, but mostly what I feel now is what I felt literally the day you died: deep gratitude that you were my father. I remember being stunned by how immediately and viscerally I felt that. I’ll never be able to fully express ... Read more| A Design So Vast
Wow. To say I honestly can’t believe I’m turning 50 on Friday is an understatement. I suspect very few people actually feel the age they are but … I really feel abject disbelief that I am here. I am bewildered, awestruck, amazed. To be 50 and, I’ll be honest, at life in general. I texted ... Read more| A Design So Vast
Morning in the mouse house. Coffee in my favorite Ratio mug (thank you VJQ). Phoebe. Crossword. Matt is sleeping. Whit’s been gone all weekend. This is such a time of transition, hanging between what was and what will be. I guess it’s not a surprise I am feeling emotional and raw (Dr Thompson made me ... Read more| A Design So Vast
I miss tabling/boothing in an event. College exhibition days were always fun, getting to see what everyone was making and talking to people perusing what you...| Mirrored W❄️rld
Just a personal check-in on workouts, hunger, soreness, and learning to rest when needed.| Notes by JCProbably
The feed-forward network in an LLM processes context vectors one at a time. This feels like it would cause similar issues to the old fixed-length bottleneck, even though it almost certainly does not.| Giles' Blog
It is of course distressing to realise that demand for my opinions on Thucydides is limited… Just over a fortnight ago I embarked on one of those “One like, one X” social media things on Blue…| Sphinx
“Generative AI tools offer significant opportunities to improve teaching and student learning.” Uh huh. The key question about the new American Historical Association guiding principles on th…| Sphinx
Ten years or so ago, I had a business idea. This is not something that often happens – precisely twice in my life, in fact, as my entrepreneurial (aka opportunistic) approach to research idea…| Sphinx
This is the summer of juicy ripe peaches, bags of cherries and blue cardboard punnets of fresh raspberries. All the fruits I love are at their peak here in this season. This is the summer of yoga teacher training: weekends spent at The Point in a cozy blue-walled studio, working through poses familiar and new. […]| cakes, tea and dreams
Much has been made to the fact that OD&D is a chimerical hybrid of wargame & role-playing game. But there is a secret third game that doesn't get talked about nearly as often: I call it the mapping game.1| Idraluna Archives
Behind The ‘Monstrous Manual’: PART 3 | Tony DiTerlizzi
I truly hate the word "content" as it's used these days. The distillation of everything you do into something made for public consumption is extremely sad an...| Mirrored W❄️rld
You inherit a team mid-flight. You didn’t hire them. You didn’t set the culture. But now it’s yours—and the results are on you. Some leaders react with frustration. Others get to work. In this piec…| CodeKraft
Reflections on recent conversations about digital identity, sovereignty, and the erosion of foundational principles Echoes from Geneva I wasn’t present at the Global Digital Collaboration conference (GDC25), but the observations shared by colleagues who attended have crystallized some issues I’ve been wrestling with for years. I should note there’s a selection bias here: I’m the author of the 10 principles of self-sovereign identity, so my community tends to have strong opinions about...| Blockchain Commons
At times, these snapshot posts will consist of a collection of thoughts followed by words, with minimal imagery; feel free to use your imagination.| Life at No. 22
Every second of every hourLet your actions speak your will Raise your head up high Raise your head up high So the heavens hear you cry Light the brightest fire From the highest mountain So the whole world knows That … Continue reading →| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Every second of every hour Let your actions speak your will Raise your head up high Raise your head up high So the heavens hear you cry Light the brightest fire From the highest mountain So the whole world knows That your spirit can't be broken — VNV Nation, Resolution I love dancing. I've loved…| tacit.livejournal.com
What do you call a dreamer, avid bookworm, lover of love, and tortured soul turned writer? The epitome of a romantic, of course. The post The epitome of a romantic appeared first on Freelance in the City.| Freelance in the City
Introducing, Freelance in the City. It's time for something new and this brand new blank canvas is just what's needed!| Freelance in the City
Well, I hope that the Roman environmental historians are all set for a bit of public engagement and explanation, because Reform UK, Durham Sturmbannabteilung, has decided to weaponise a bit of anci…| Sphinx
We celebrate not the trail, but the wild places it passes through. – Ray Jardine, PACIFIC CREST TRAIL HIKER’S HANDBOOK, 1996| PMags.com
Think this actually might be my first Initial Impressions post, but as this is a brand new pen I received through backing the KickStarter campaign and it will soon be available to buy outside of th…| dapprman
Identify what you are able and willing to do, what you are willing to learn, and what you'd rather delegate.| Mirrored W❄️rld
Having reached the end of my account of the pilgrimage, it is finally time to share some of my reflections. The pilgrimage experience was a very humbling one, very symbolic of one’s sojourn o…| Inclina aurem cordis tui
Good games don't stop being good.| Mirrored W❄️rld
I spent my late teens and early twenties looking for the perfect system to manage my to-do list. , , you name it, along with a slew of software to go with th...| Mirrored W❄️rld
A bit of a history lesson from an old tea drinker here. Back when I first started drinking tea in earnest, around 1998 or so, I mostly hung out with older tea people here in Hong Kong at the Best Tea House. The crowd was mostly an older generation who grew up drinking dim sum […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
Earlier this month, my Nomic group concluded a game of Committe Nomic (explained below) after six sessions. Just as I would set down a postmortem on a comple...| Idraluna Archives
Old timers on this blog will remember the Longjing rule, in which I stated that one should not go to Hangzhou to buy Longjing – because the best tea has already left town. Recently, as I̵…| A Tea Addict's Journal
Agents are coming faster than ever and yet are still kind of hard to use?| www.coryzue.com
Normally when you see the name Moonman or Majohn you assume the pen will be a clone, blatantly breaking copyright, however on this occasion has Moonman/Majohn now effectively claimed the right to t…| dapprman
So, one thing I’ve discovered when writing a series is that people like to binge. Whether it’s books, television, food – you name it – binging is a thing right now. And now I am dealing with the added pressure of getting the next book out as soon as possible, because some people have read […]| Down the Forest Path
ABSTRACT: “Fair Witnessing” is a new approach for asserting and interpreting digital claims in a way that mirrors real-world human trust: through personal observation, contextual disclosure, and progressive validation. It can be implemented with the decentralized architecture of Gordian Envelopes to allow individuals to make verifiable statements while balancing privacy, accountability, and interpretability. At its core, fair witnessing is not about declaring truth, it’s about showing y...| Blockchain Commons
Link to discussion The story of the Thief class is well-known by now, with the idea being given to Gary …Continue reading →| Smoldering Wizard
The first two hundred metres after they turned off the highway were fine. Then Gregor’s head hit the roof of the car as it reached the end of the decent tarmac and lurched down at least five centim…| Sphinx
Today I share a personal blog all about my trip in March to Hawaii, my first out-of-state school visits, my book, and roosters! Lots and lots of roosters!| Jena Benton
In Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter, one of my favourite novels of recent years, a mysterious and rather shady acquaintance of the narrator establishes a clinic for people suffering from Alzheimer’…| Sphinx
Unlike Thucydides, we made it to Amphipolis! Yes, I have been waiting over a year to make this joke.| Sphinx
It’s always interesting to realise how much I’ve unconsciously and unquestionably absorbed a set of assumptions. To judge from this week’s visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens with…| Sphinx
Thucydides of course anticipated the dynamics of social media.* On the one hand, there is the democratisation of opinion, with every Athenian citizen having not just a right but a duty to contribut…| Sphinx
You can’t spend a lot of time thinking about the modern reception of Thucydides without engaging with his place in Professional Military Education in the United States, which is plausibly responsib…| Sphinx
A blog post about how Religion in D&D and other Fantasy RPGs approaches polytheism in the wrong way and how to fix that in order to have more mystery and adventure in your game sessions.| Widdershins Wanderings
Just six months since I last posted about what is on my desk and there has been a sudden growth. Part was a result of inking some pens to allow a newcomer to the fountain pen world to try a selecti…| dapprman
In early 2025, Blockchain Commons architected and engineered a major project for the Zcash blockchain: the ZeWIF specification that allows all of its wallets to interoperate. Interoperability is something that I consider vitally important for a technological ecosystem, so I was thrilled that Blockchain Commons could improve interoperability for Zcash. Here’s a bit more on why, what Blockchain Commons did for Zcash, and what I’d like to do for other technological communities. The Limits of...| Blockchain Commons
Thucydides may not be a wholly uncelebrated author, but it is rare that his name occurs in contexts outside politics and history – let alone in poetry or song; and so one of the rarer but not…| Sphinx
While I’m in Taiwan I’ve been having tea a few times with Alex from Taiwan Tea Odyssey. In our conversations over random teas, obviously one of the topics that would come up is vendors.…| A Tea Addict's Journal
New job? Well, time for a new keyboard too!| The Haranguer
It’s been a while since I’ve let my thoughts wander freely on the page. Somewhere along the way, I began to avoid writing—not intentionally, but gradually, like slipping into silence without realiz…| Void Thoughts
Five lines of JSON can now replace multi-million dollar SaaS companies.| www.coryzue.com
Over the years I’ve had some changes in what I believed in. I googled blending on this blog and it seems like last time I talked about it extensively was some (many) years ago. It’s pro…| A Tea Addict's Journal
When can you trust a software release? How do you know that a software repo is safe, that it represents the intent of its creators? On the 20th anniversary of Git, these questions are more important than ever. Obviously, Git lays the foundation for trust in software releases with its ability to sign commits, but the trust of the system is unfortunately shallow. Untrusted content can be merged into a trusted repo, commit histories can be rewritten, and trust can’t be reliably extended into t...| Blockchain Commons
Tl;dr: massively over-interpreting a throwaway comment and extending a metaphor way beyond any reasonable point…| Sphinx
Over the last year or so, like other academics, I’ve received occasional emails from different publishers asking whether I’d be willing for my work to be included in any deal they might sign with G…| Sphinx
I am reasonably confident that my little brother does not read this blog, and nor does anyone who is likely to mention it to him. This is important, because I wouldn’t want him to think I was ungra…| Sphinx
Why dropout is kind of like the mandatory vacation policies financial firms have| Giles' Blog
This is the 19th year this blog has been in existence, which, frankly, is a long time, even if the past few years it’s more of a ghoul and less of an active blog. The reason I still pay for hosting to keep all this up is because, every so often, people would tell me […]| A Tea Addict's Journal
A blog post about how to handle death in OSR games, and some alternatives that are more dramatic than instantly killing a Player Character.| Widdershins Wanderings
Image taken from the Magic Tree House anime. Can you believe they didn't bring this thing over to the US? Missed opportunity.| Widdershins Wanderings
A play report and general musings after running two game sessions of *The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford* using Cairn 2e for some middle schoolers at my school.| Widdershins Wanderings
A new billboard appeared recently next to the grocery store where I do most of my shopping. Image by author I don’t mean the “now leasing” sign, but the one next to it. The one with the country singer on it. Back when I was in middle school in Venango, Nebraska, I didn’t know a thing about Dolly…| tacit.livejournal.com
As the apeirokinetic pantoustasis rolls ever onward, it is increasingly clear that this must be the darkest timeline.* It is at any rate the stupidest. Reason, analysis and theory have little purch…| Sphinx
The name of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff recurred time and again in the conference on Altertumswissenschaft and Historismus I was attending last week in London (one of the most intellectually…| Sphinx
Although it might seem that AI will make it pointless, I still think it's worth blogging.| Giles' Blog
Learning in public helps me grow as an engineer and seems to benefit others too. Here's why I should do more.| Giles' Blog
I spent two hours figuring this out so you don't have to.| Cory Zue | Full-Stack Developer, Maker of Products, and Solopreneur
I made an app that lets you create a compressed view of your life.| Cory Zue | Full-Stack Developer, Maker of Products, and Solopreneur
Right now I’m sitting in one of my happy places on the Strath campus, doing a bit of tidying and sorting admin as the spring term begins.| Hi, I'm Heather Burns
…is a question I was not expecting to hear last week. My coworker and I were talking with one of our ZUMIX alumni, a bright college senior majoring in communications, about potential jobs whe…| cakes, tea and dreams
My one little word for 2024 was sparkle. I choose a word to guide me each year, and at the end of 2023, after a tough breakup and various other challenges over the previous several years, I wanted …| cakes, tea and dreams
Here are some posts from this year that didn't quite cross the 'blog-worthy' threshold on their own. (Check out & as well!) I was reading about the demon...| Idraluna Archives
D&D Fifth Edition turned 10 this year, and reading got me reflecting on my own experiences with the game. I've been in three 5e campaigns that were genu...| Idraluna Archives
This year’s list of my best reads and listens is a little bit different, and a whole lot shorter. That’s not to say the volume of my reading was any less than usual, in fact, it went way up (yes, that was apparently possible). But. A lot of that reading was very niche stuff focused on very niche client needs: interesting enough, but not exactly casual reading. And that was before, out of nowhere, I became a university student again.| Hi, I'm Heather Burns
Two days after the event, I am still somewhat baffled as to what three of America’s leading avant-garde jazz musicians – Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara, playing and recor…| Sphinx
It’s a sign of the rapid expansion of Bluesky that it now looks as if it’s worth my while searching for ‘Thucydides’ every now and then, in order to wonder whether I should trouble to correct misqu…| Sphinx
